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" I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games. "
Rich Sommer
Games
Bit
Nerd
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" I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like 'The Dinner Party' from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it. "
Rich Sommer
Dinner
Week
You
" The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.' "
Rich Sommer
Why
New York
Men
" I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies. "
Rich Sommer
Start
Wonder
Ideas
" I'll usually stay up a little later than my wife and play Xbox, a little 'Modern Warfare 3.' Or I'll have a friend over, and we'll play board games until late at night. I'll always choose fun over sleep. "
Rich Sommer
Sleep
Fun
Friend
" I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it. "
Rich Sommer
Speak
Like
Baby
" Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky. "
Rich Sommer
You
Work
School
" I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! "
Rich Sommer
Acting
Than
Practice
" Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social. "
Rich Sommer
People
Great
Know
" I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character. "
Rich Sommer
Job
Sunshine
Money
" The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don't know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, 'I can't do this.' It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue. "
Rich Sommer
Know
Think
Me
" Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you. "
Rich Sommer
Pretty
Him
Camera
" The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count. "
Rich Sommer
Her
Eyes
Impossible
" I was a temp for three years in New York when I was auditioning; when I was cast in 'Mad Men,' I was still a temp. I'm good at making copies; I'm good at typing things. I'm good at killing the day and making it look like I'm doing something. "
Rich Sommer
Men
Doing
Good
" After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed? "
Rich Sommer
Pushed
Now
Envelope
" I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk. "
Rich Sommer
New
Games
Game
" In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times. "
Rich Sommer
Used
Friend
My Friend
" For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.' "
Rich Sommer
Men
Moving
New York
" I'm very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they're legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that. "
Rich Sommer
Goodbye
Happy
Suits
" I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in. "
Rich Sommer
Quick
Life
Become
" I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser. "
Rich Sommer
Actor
I Think
Stage
" I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos. "
Rich Sommer
Fan
Boss
Brothers
" My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since. "
Rich Sommer
Class
Anything
Clear
" I am a board game enthusiast, a board game evangelist, a board game nerd, but I wouldn't say I'm 'keen' because I very rarely win, and 'keen' suggests you're actually good at something. But I do play a lot of them, and I have a pretty good-sized collection. "
Rich Sommer
Good
Win
I Am
" Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway. "
Rich Sommer
Think
Men
Need
" Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head. "
Rich Sommer
Gun
Love
Friends
" I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be? "
Rich Sommer
Mad
Men
Will
" My roomate at 'Harvey' is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I've taught him Hive and Fastrack. Others have played For the Win, but Cards Against Humanity has been the dressing room hit. We've had the understudies, even Jim Parsons playing it. Our dressing room is practically sponsored by Cards Against Humanity. "
Rich Sommer
Others
Cards
Dressing
" Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you don't own from the library and then return them. "
Rich Sommer
Meet
Look
Library
" Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor. "
Rich Sommer
You
Feel
Know
" I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache. "
Rich Sommer
Confidence
Off
Pull